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Personal Sales Help Mentorship
Two Spots Still Open… I still have room for two more writers. And you can start now or next year, either is fine. Here is why I am going to do this. To put it bluntly, many writers are simply creating stories that won’t sell for one reason or another, often having nothing to do with craft. Sometimes learning this stuff early helps before you get to twenty or more major titles published, but often a writer gets to that discoverability threshold of 20 books and still does not see an increase in sales. That means something is off in the product. (At that point, the story is a product.)…
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Fall Indie Festival Start Postponed One Week!!
Festival Will Start Monday October 20th… We sort of didn’t account for when we set the start date that we would still have a wonderful Fey Kickstarter going until Thursday and we don’t want this Fall Festival to overlap or distract. So check out Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s new Fey novel, The Unexpected Hero. Check out the campaign page here… The links to get into the Fall Indie Writing Festival will be sent to those of you signed up this next weekend. And yes, there is still room to get in and sign up. Just follow the instructions below. FALL INDIE WRITING FESTIVAL… Online October 20th through November 14th Going to…
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Still Room In the Personal Sales Help Mentorship
Only For a Few Writers… Bringing this back here because I still have room for two more writers. And you can start now or next year, either is fine. Here is why I am going to do this. To put it bluntly, many writers are simply creating stories that won’t sell for one reason or another, often having nothing to do with craft. Sometimes learning this stuff early helps before you get to twenty or more major titles published, but often a writer gets to that discoverability threshold of 20 books and still does not see an increase in sales. That means something is off in the product. (At that…
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Baker and Taylor Going Out of Business…
No Real Surprise… B&T at one point in time was the main distributor to bookstores. Maybe the largest book distributor at times. It was founded in the 1800s, actually. Over the last fifty years it morphed into different forms and with different corporate owners too stupid to detail out here. And parts of the company were sold off. (Always a good plan.) When indie publishing with Amazon fired up, “extended distribution” went to B&T and for a time all indie books had a special code that basically kept bookstores from buying indie books. Can I say “shortsighted on B&T’s part. But at that point their main customers were the big…
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Last Day for Early Bird Discount!!!
FALL INDIE WRITING FESTIVAL… Online October 20th through November 14th Going to put this basic information here again since we still have more than enough spots open. We will have a minimum of five videos a day, often over ten when we do special focus things. There will be between 150 and 200 learning videos in the four weeks you can do on your own time. No assignments at all. But staying up with the videos as they go along also allows you to ask questions, which is an important part of this. Kris and I will answer the questions either in an email if personal, or in a video…
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Takes Balance in Indie Publishing…
Indie Takes Knowing Major and Minor Skills… Back in traditional publishing days, hundreds of thousands of writers worked to get past the gate keepers and get their books bought and into print. A few out of those thousands actually made it for a ton of varied reasons. And so few out of those who made it actually had careers longer than a few books. Reasons… Many were just not good storytellers, rewrote everything into mush, and had no voice, didn’t understand the entire business process of submission, or more than likely, just did not have the drive to keep going and keep learning and working to get better. They claimed…
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FALL INDIE WRITING FESTIVAL…
FALL INDIE WRITING FESTIVAL… Online October 20th through November 14th Since we did the last master class back six or seven years ago, we have been trying to come up with a way to bring everything in indie publishing and writing together. And have it all presented in a way that makes sense. With our regular workshops and classes and such, there are so many gaps of large areas we are missing that we want to cover. Really important gaps to indie writers and publishers. So this last summer in our INDIE WRITING CAMP, we did our best in an orderly fashion that we hoped helped writers of all levels…
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My Attitude Toward Helping With Copyright…
I Am Not a Lawyer… And would never give legal advice. But I am a long-term professional fiction writer of over 50 years and I know copyright because (duh) that is how I make all my money. So when I say something to inform about copyright, I say what I say not as a lawyer, but in the interest of helping writers learn and avoid issues. A super nice person who has forgotten more of the legal fine details of copyrght that I know often responds to my posts. I need to be clear here. Court cases and attorneys are cheap when you need their help to consult or look…
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New Promotion Class and Extension of Early Bird Discount…
Yes… We Are Doing A Promotion Class It is called… INDIE PUBLISHING PROMOTION 2025 A step-by-step guide to understanding how promotion is done for books in 2025. You don’t need to waste money on Facebook or Amazon ads. There are more great promotions than you have time for that you can do for your books that work and build a real fan base. 9 week class given by New York Times bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith and planned by both Dean and New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch together. This will have some information talked about in the Writing Summer Camp, but a lot more added plus assignments…
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List of Workshops Starting September 2nd…
Some Really Great Classes and All On Sale! All of these are on WMG Teachable. All start either September 2nd or 3rd. I have put the links with most of them, but if the link doesn’t work, you can scroll through on Teachable and find it. (Search function on Teachable is not great.) Sale information at the bottom of the post. REGULAR WORKSHOPS… 5 available starting on September 2nd… 6 weeks long with 5 assignments… I respond personally to all assignments… $300 Four of these are available every month. This month Heinlein’s Rules is added in for one month only. To find them just go to WMG Teachable and hit…